Today on the Dish, Andrew advocated a return to Bowles-Simpson, we collected a second round of foreign policy debate reax, and reviewed Huntsman's plan to end Too Big To Fail. We reevaluated Huntsman's candidacy, Chait refuted the notion that Obama’s "leadership" could have convinced Republicans to accept a tax increase, and a reader took on discontented liberals. Newt comes across as "at least passably presidential," he co-opted Lean Six Sigma, and the GOP dodged entitlement reform. Christianists in Iowa resisted Romney's advances, John Kyl sabotaged the supercommittee, and we assessed US interest rates. Ponnuru repudiated reverse class warfare, and in our AAA video, Andrew explained why European pop music is superior.
We probed the relationship between "violent transnational Islamism and the broader Islamist movement," Egypt's policemen are accustomed to unaccountable power, Saleh stepped down in Yemen, and Bahrainian autocrats confronted torture. We took a second look at the new IAEA report, Putin was booed at a martial arts fight (follow-up here), and two straight guys graced Al-Jazeera with a gay kiss.
The New Yorker related the OWS origin story, the cult of Paterno endures, family income predicts student achievement, and drunk unsafe sleeping kills babies. An 82-year-old grandmother got a kick out of Pop Rocks, polyamory entered the mainstream, and the debate over college sports continued. The Muppets returned, Fallon promoted unfunny casual sexism, and mustard gas is a condiment, "essentially." Andrew went another round on intelligence research, we questioned Twilight's feminism, and Pamela Geller lost it over "stealth halal" turkeys.
Chart of the day here, hathos alert here, quote for the day here, VFYW here, FOTD here, MHB here, "the total economic production of the human race (thus far)" here, and Thanksgiving travel advice here and here.
— M.A.
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